Btw, Psy’s original version was one of the horrible-est videos I’ve ever had to cringe through and even that I only ever watched it once, in snatches.

Re: “demonising minority groups, race, n religion does not work nowadays with the younger voters. it will even alienate minorities away from supporting you”

There is really very little that BN can do which will win over the Chinese votes.

Take for example this clueless girl. As far as I’m aware, there was no further action taken against her. In my earlier posting (Sept 8), I said I hoped that she’d be let off the hook so that she (and other Chinese her generation) will not harbour a grudge against the govt.

The Pakatan supporters had cheered her on. None considered what she did to be rude.

I don’t think she has the slightest realisation that what she did gravely offended some pro-establishment people and made other non-Chinese people angry.

If hordes of youngsters are like her and continue living in a non-BM speaking bubble totally insulated from any inkling about how other people think, then …

So true that the DAP and their NGO-civil society cronies have fostered an alternate reality in their BangsarMalaysia parallel universe.

However, I’m at a loss as to how the 1960s holdover ‘Tanam Jagung’ signage came about and WHY in the world those women were waving that placard with those particular words.

Nonetheless, the Chinese bloggers and commenters go berserk when that ‘Balik kampung’ message is questioned. With such an attitude, they (the Chinese bloggers and commenters) are making the middle ground impossible. Their Bangsar-muhibbah chest-thumping is only syok sendiri (with help from The Scissors to amplify the navel-gazing).

considering how the loons in umno has been going into a perpetual hysteria about ‘non malays taking over malaysia’, ‘next may 13’, ‘ungrateful chinese’,calling them names, n trying to turn everything into a malay vs. chinese issue, its no surprise they are now having trouble winning them back.

anonymous 5:25, if you are equalling ‘kurang ajar’ as criticising bn, then you are right. a lot of the young malay folks are not siding with bn. and i am not talking about the urban professionals gang who speak good english n shop in pavillion.

this generational disconnect/gap is still not seen by many in bn, and certainly not in this blog who still sticks to the dinosaur tactics of race vs race/religion vs religion.

Actions speak louder than words: Talk Bangsar Malaysia all you want but it is the act that is telling, like the DAP election results.

But needless to say, the DAP supporters cannot get away from spin, like the reader comment in Malaysiakini (screenshot below).

Hullo, Ahmad Ton has been in DAP 36 years! and was in the previous CEC but this time, since the party membership has tripled from 2008, there are naturally a lot more new delegates who voted differently from the old cohort who gave AT his seat.

Someone like the anti-“Dumno” commenter ‘prmaju’ is obviously ignorant to claim that “Except Zaril, all those Malay who were not elected were unknowned”.

Ahmad Ton stood for election on the DAP ticket in for the Parliamentary seat of Tanjung Piai in Johor in 2008 and before that the state seat of Bekok (Johor, 2004).

And this ignoramus PR supporter dares to claim that Ahmad Ton is unknown (?!) Like I wrote, AT has been in DAP since before even Teo Nie Ching was born.

Unfortunately, many Pakatan supporters who behave like DAPsters suffer the same fact-deficit as ‘prmaju’ who commented that the rest of the 7 Malay candidates with the exception of Zairil are unknown.

In fact, the ignorance of ‘prmaju’ knows no bounds as Ariffin Omar is DAP’s own senator who stepped into Tunku Aziz’s shoes (vacancy).

So as you see Dave, your guys are really living in an alternate reality in your own parallel universe. And what you guys comment online fully reflect this black hole.

Postscript: To clarify, AT could have been appointed rather than elected to the previous CEC. Which it is needs to be fact-checked.

Too bad what happened to him, though. Still don’t expect anyone from some so called multi racial Malaysian Malaysia party to defend him though. Totally worlds apart in treatment compared to that mascot girl.

The way chinese are behaving under DAP you wonder why people remember May 13? Are you as clueless as that woman in that Lynas demo?

I’m can understand why Shahrizat and Ibrahim Ali brought up the topic of May 13.

But I still don’t get how a woman who looks to be 20-something in age can dig up a slogan dating back to 1969 for her placard.

Some expressions do become outdated, e.g. the meaning of “gay” today compared with during the Roaring Twenties, say.

So I don’t understand how the phrase ‘Balik kampung tanam jagung’ can cross the gulf of 40-odd years to be recycled particularly as it is in BM, a language which the non-Malay opposition supporters rarely use.

I can understand why Shahrizat and Ibrahim Ali brought up the topic of May 13.

But I still don’t get how a woman who looks to be 20-something in age can dig up a slogan dating back to 1969 for her placard.

Some expressions do become outdated, e.g. the meaning of “gay” today compared with during the Roaring Twenties, say.

So I don’t understand how the phrase ‘Balik kampung tanam jagung’ can cross the gulf of 40-odd years to be recycled particularly as it is in BM, a language which the non-Malay opposition supporters rarely use.

quote: “He said to continue competing in the international market, they needed to concentrate on producing good quality products that other markets did not have and Kwok’s advice to the younger generation of entrepreneurs was to go back to farming.

“Balik kampung, tanam jagung, (popular Malay phrase literally meaning back to the village and grow corn),” said Kwok with a laugh.”
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its from the star, maybe another idea for a conspiracy theory.

so u see, thats the result of living in a bubble where the goal is to racailise everything n find a ethno-religeous scapegoat. one turns paranoid n full of… ahem, perpetual hysteria.

anonymous, the only people yowling for race riot is people like sharizat, backed into a corner after ‘lembugate’, n right wing nutters like ibrahim ali who is trying too hard to attract najibs attention so he can run for a seat next ge. people who live in a bubble where minorities either have to play a secondary role or are a threat, it seems.

GE Lim said over here that Ahmad Ton got a memento(?) for being a member of DAP for more than 35 years. Wonder what sort of memento(?). GE Lim looked tired though, probably not feeling well, partly due to Helen’s blog :)

Don’t act like the DAP totally innocent and free from provoking, don’t talk about others being trapped in some bubble when DAP people don’t give a damn about insensitivities and instead throw a fit when reminded that their actions mirror the things they do before Mei 13, don’t be stupid and naive and act like Malaysia is free from racial and religious politics when their chinese majority party vote out all malays and keep one just for show, and pretend that the other is somehow a malay, and thsi same party is in cahoots with some religious fanatic party that had no qualms declaring the other side infidels for years and never bother retracting it back.

On second thought, why bother telling you people all this.
Keep thinking along the same lines forever and don’t be surprised when people reject the PR totally come next election.
Never change, PR supporters.

It is the post Arab Spring opportunistic politician that is killing off the momentum of the Arab Spring; and similarly it is the religious party expediency that is killing off religion when they couldn’t keep pace with its dynamique. And similarly it is the evangelist Dapster’s lust for power that they have no qualm about killing off the music as long as it fills them up.

Multi racial party my foot. Chinese will always be chinese …they will close ranks among themselves. No matter who you are or what you are….as long as you a chinese your the special ones. I pity all the so called Indian and Malay followers in DUMB ASS PARTY …if only they can smell the shit thats being served to them, ahh but as long as they are given some aroma therapy here and there they are a happy lot. At the end of the day all well that ends well in the Chinese DUMB ASS PARTY.

While I am no fan of Rosmah , what if LGE n LKS is protray as a couple ‘apek tong taik’. Trying to sell their ‘shit’ , and one wiff of their shit will put their ‘Customers’ in a fenzy ala Kangkang style.

I wonder how many ‘hits’ I will get?, But better still wihat will the Dapsters fenzy reaction? , I can only imagine

Oh by the way……just to mention , i would not be surprised if Little Miss Muppet in the video will be in contention to run for a seats in PRU 13 under DUMB ASS PARTY. There always viable constituencies like Kelana Jaya, Subang Seputeh or Puchong where people there would look to her as Icon cum hero. Even if she cant speak English or Bahasa Malaysia hmmmmm i wonder if she knows what the rukunnegara is …..

that girl, she thinks she’s smart by getting into bed with the DAP. we’ll see where she’s going to end up after the DAP is finished with her. maybe she can go to Anwar. I m sure Anwar would be very interested in her. hey look, she’s young, only 19, smooth, fresh.

The most common punditry is that DAP will get, at the very least, 80% Chinese support next GE. The 20% non-opposition are the much older Chinese rural folks, so don’t be surprised if among the young urban Chinese, DAP is getting 90-95% support.

The little moppet probably just thinks that it’s cool to appear in the Gangnam video, esp. now that the vid is a viral hit plus it’s hugely popular with the Chinese and the opposition viewers. At 19 and judging from the blur-blur antics that got her into trouble, I doubt that she has any political motives or savvy ambitions vis-a-vis Pakatan.

A bigger worry is the cleavage arising from the overwhelmingly young Chinese support for DAP and the inability of BN to talk their lingo (music videos/rap, manga, soundbites, etc). The slogan recently introduced by MCA – “Stability above Chaos” – will cut no ice with youngsters who are naturally rebellious.

your take on the young Chinese, the music videos, rap, manga, soundbites etc, that says a lot of the state of mind of those young Chinese rather than the ability of the DAP to garner Chinese votes.

if those young Chinese, as you say, are so obsessed with those things you mentioned, then there’s no hope for the Chinese community.

the Malays, the Indians, the rest in Sabah and Sarawak, we’re not that obsessed with those stuff you mentioned, so the effect is not that strong. we’ll get on.

an ethnic community whose youth’s so obsessed with pop culture, the Chinese have no hope of getting ahead in society. but obviously there are Chinese out there that think that they still dominate the economy and therefore such distractions will not affect the future well being of their community that much.

we’ll see where these youths end up years later. but I bet the outcome is not going to be pretty for them.

DAP’s young Malaysian First-est supporters are K-Pop fans who wouldn’t be able to name one single traditional Malay (Nusantara) musical instrument.

But the pop culture aside, they do have some political awareness. Unfortunately this consciousness is shaped by DAP and buta sejarah wrt to some of the topics that we’ve been discussing here like the FedCon, citizenship by operation of law, the election series balance of power, (non)-secular state etc.

It’s quite apparent that DAP has a strong marketing arm. I wouldn’t be surprised if their public relations people are academically and professional trained in commercial marketing, which they use to great effect in the political arena .

The use of ‘gangnam style’ is a case of bandwagon marketing. They ‘jump on the bandwagon’ that is the PSY phenomenon, and they use it to promote their video. So many youtubers use this technique to gain prominence. And it coincides with PSY’s video recently becoming the all time most viewed video.

You also have to consider the fact that youtube (through google) gives this “DAP” version of gangnam style top billing.
The link is situated at the front page when I type in the site http://www.youtube.com.my, and I am accessing the site from overseas.

Google is very much involved in helping the opposition attain greater visibility. I can understand why the Chinese govt doesn’t trust them. So much for the motto of their founders ‘Do no evil’.

I just bought a Windows phone as a mark of protest. It’s better to use the devil you know.

the amount of $$ n effort put in by dap/pas/pkr pales in comparison to barisan nasional’s. bn has hired top international consultancy firms like apco worldwide, saatchi & saatchi to aid in promotion n propaganda. this doesnt include the newspapers like star/bh/utusan it controls, tv3, rtm.

we have to ask why despite this massive amount of $$$ by bn, it has not been well received, especially by youth

Gelagat Anwar is the blog that brought down a Deputy Chief Minister with its leak of the “Cocky Arrogant Tokong” meeting minutes. The blogger was proven correct after Mansor buckled.

The expose on the “hundreds of thousands (ringgit)” being spent to promote certain DAP politicians was not an expose on DAP per se but a revelation from the PKR angle.

Previous PKR insider info published by Gelagat Anwar has also proven accurate. Given GA’s track record, his latest allegation about “hundreds of thousands” spent to raise the profile of Hannah Yeoh (and other DAPsy pollies acceptable to the Anwar clique) should not be dismissed lightly.

Although GA is anonymous, as a writer he has stronger credentials than a Star-Take Subang4Jesus reporter endlessly transcribing “the YB said this, the YB said that”.

And as for The Star‘s pro-DAP bias, you insinuate as if I’ve been the only individual to say this as well as made another insinuation that I’m saying this b’cos I’m an ex-employee (typical ‘high-class’ DAPster style of comment).

Ask anyone old enough in the media industry, and they will tell you the same. The fact that you’re so ignorant about the newspapers and yet still keep shooting your mouth off truly puts you among the ignoramai.

When the MCA top brass crack the whip, the pro-BN articles will appear.

When left to their own devices, the reporters will run the evangelist cult agenda.

This is what makes The Star so freaky.

There’s nothing unusual in any newspaper taking sides. I’ve previously pointed out that the New York Times in its editorial has without fail endorsed every single presidential candidate from the Democratic Party since the time of John F Kennedy.

Newspapers around the world are willing to openly tilt to one side or the other when it comes election time.
The Star is problematic because the paper inclines in the opposite direction to its owners, which makes it schizophrenic unlike other papers which do not possess this internal contradiction. The NYT staff, for example, are themselves liberal (reflected in the writings) which is consistent with the paper’s own liberal bent.

As for how the hundreds of thousands are spent, it’s true that GA did not specifically name The Star. However it makes sense to connect the dots as we can see which media promote her endlessly and which do not. The budget certainly wasn’t given to BH or Utusan.

Whereas if you take the Selangor Times, they carried her photo AGAIN this week. It’s a hattrick. Every week ST must have her photo. This lends credence to GA’s allegation.

while nyt will endorse democrat candidate, it will run articles, commentary, letters critical of the democrat leadership or president obama.

imagine if the star did the same. we will be hearing more endless yelling of ‘si gunting’ from your blog. not to mention calls from some readers to purge the editorial board n journalist rolls. perhaps theres a chance to get your old job back, maybe even at higher rank, no?

unlikely dap members who will be voting for youth/wanita posts read the star. for the few that do, unlikely they will be infleunce by kecil news about hannah inspecting a pasar malam/visiting line dancing community club/urban planning meeting/etc.

and these are just few favorable bn or anti pakatan news n op-ed that i find in a matter of minutes.

for you, you have to dig back to 3 years ago to find a article on the use of social media (the gist was not about politicos who tweet btw), or a mundane entry about hannah yeoh in a town planning meeting, as “evidence” that star is closetly pro pakatan.

I had noticed it too b’cos its positive tone is so unusual and going against the current.

But it falls back to Joceline, Joceline, Joceline, always Joceline … admittedly she writes some BN-MCA positive stories

and that is why the lynch mob in cyberspace constantly want to burn her at the stake incl. our own Ravin who called her the most nasty names (his comment moderated with asterisks, here)

I’ve mentioned before that Joceline is a renegade in the Star office.

The paper has thousands of editorial staff but only one Joceline who wrote the MCA-positive story you cited. With thousands of reporters, columnists, special writers, feature writers, political correspondents, bureau chiefs and the various editors (deputy editors, assistant editors, managing editors, associate editors) …

don’t you think the paper should have at least a few dozens of Jocelines?